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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Biden’s First 100 Days Will Be the Biggest Since FDR’s
A NEW NEW DEALEven before being sworn in, Biden had devoted a series of speeches to his ambitious plans. When the action begins, it will be a tonic, as it was in 1933.
If FDR Built It, Donald Trump Wants to Destroy It
MR. DISORDERLabor Day reminds us of our great domestic progress that Trump attacks daily. And the upcoming UN Summit remind us that Trump's destruction doesn't end at our borders.
The Codebreakers Who Exposed Soviet Spies–and Fed Paranoia
ENDSPELLSchoolteachers, archeologists, linguists and mathematicians worked on the Venona project breaking unbreakable Soviet code from WWII. They were heroes. But some had deep regrets.
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World War II Never Ended Between Russia and Japan
FROZENRussian nationalists push Putin to forget about peace with Japan if it means giving up the the windswept Kuril Islands. And vice versa.
Doris Kearns Goodwin Explains What Makes a Great President
WHAT AILS USThe historian has been closely watching what happens in the Oval Office since she was a White House intern under LBJ. She talks about empathy, adversity, and building a good team.
Bannon Envisions Himself as Living Huey Long to Trump’s FDR
Populism LivesThe strategist sees an opening for himself now that the GOP has passed with Trump’s blessing and signature a traditional help-the-rich tax bill.
Trump Is Doing Something No President Has Done in 80 Years
FDR FTWFDR was the last sitting president to directly try and unseat a senator from his own party. But one top historian says, Trump lacks the same precision.
FDR's Depression-Era Kedgeree
PRESIDENTIAL PALATESThe Roosevelt's White House chef was terrible. No, really. But this dish would be the one you hoped was on the menu.
What Trump and FDR Have in Common
SAY WHAT?Who said the “mingling of Asiatic blood with European or American blood produces, in nine cases out of ten, the most unfortunate results”?
When FDR Turned Away Refugees
Fear FactorLong before Trump exhorted us to fear the immigrants at our gates, American have gullibly gone along with leaders who exploit the specter of alien enemies hidden among us.
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